Please note, this week the library will be closed Thursday, February 17, and Friday, February 18. I apologize for the inconvenience. Most classes that meet on Thursday and Friday have rescheduled their class visits to Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Click the link for this week's class visit schedule.

This week during class visits we will continue to focus on the many holidays and events that take place in the month of February.

Grades 1, 2, and 4 will hear selections that relate to African-American history and culture, as February is Black History Month.

In addition, the choice for grade 2--I Lost My Tooth in Africa, by Penda Diakite'--also ties in with Children's Dental Health Month, which is this month.

Students in grades 3 and 5 will hear about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Grades 3, 4, and 5 have relatively short readalouds this week, to make sure that students have ample time to choose books for pleasure reading over the February break.

Grades DK and K will hear a brand-new book, How Rocket Learned to Read, by Tad Hills. I will again be showing students where in the library to find books for emergent readers. With DK, I will be reading one or two Elephant & Piggie books, by Mo Willems, which are great choices for beginning readers.

Our reading of Elephant & Piggies also sets the stage for visits from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Readers, as a couple of new Elephant & Piggie books are among purchases generously funded by a gift from the Manhattan Beach Rotary Club. Thank you, Rotary Club!

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Barbara Siegemund-Broka, library media specialist, maintains this blog to inform Pennekamp students and families about library news and related content. Any opinions expressed here are solely her own.

What's Ms. Barbara reading?

Last Day on Mars, by Kevin Emerson​

﻿Worth repeating:﻿

​Part of what makes paper a brilliant technology may be, in fact, that it offers us so much and no more. A small child cannot tap the duck and elicit a quack; for that, the child needs to turn to a parent. And when you cannot tap the picture of the horse and watch it gallop across the page, you learn that your brain can make the horse move as fast as you want it to, just as later on it will show you the young wizards on their broomsticks, and perhaps even sneak you in among them.

--from "The Merits of Reading Real Books to Your Children," by Perri Klass, in New York Times, August 8, 2016​